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WELLS COLLEGE

EIN 15-0532276 AURORA, NY

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Revenue 2024
$3,142,887
Expenses 2024
$8,496,336

Program services were 46.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B420
Classification
2000
Street
170 MAIN ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO EDUCATE STUDENTS TO THINK CRITICALLY, REASON WISELY, AND ACT HUMANELY AS THEY CULTIVATE MEANINGFUL LIVES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

EDUCATE STUDENTS TO THINK CRITICALLY, REASON WISELY, AND ACT HUMANELY AS THEY CULTIVATE MEANINGFUL LIVES. THROUGH WELLS' ACADEMIC PROGRAM, RESIDENTIAL ATMOSPHERE, AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, STUDENTS LEARN AND PRACTICE THE IDEALS OF THE LIBERAL ARTS. THE WELLS EXPERIENCE PREPARES STUDENTS TO APPRECIATE COMPLEXITY AND DIFFERENCE, TO EMBRACE NEW WAYS OF KNOWING, TO BE CREATIVE, AND TO RESPOND ETHICALLY TO THE INTERDEPENDENT WORLDS TO WHICH THEY BELONG. COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE IN ALL AREAS OF ITS REACH, WELLS COLLEGE EQUIPS STUDENTS FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND FOR SHARING THE PRIVILEGES OF EDUCATION WITH OTHERS.

  • HIGHER EDUCATION - INSTRUCTIONAL COSTS INCLUDING SALARY AND BENEFITS FOR FACULTY AND EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH MAINTAINING EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENTS. ALL PROGRAM EXPENSES ARE INCURRED TO FURTHER THE EDUCATION OF FORMER STUDENTS.

    Expenses $3,941,510 · Revenue $121,567

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Marie Chapman Carroll

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Kathryn L Fong

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Deborah L Callahan

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Vicki Keller Panhuise

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Stephen L Zabriskie

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nicola A Williams

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kris Selander Gordon

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Michael J Burgess

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Janice W Albano

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Talyse L Hampton

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan Henking

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $267,928
    From this org
    $266,460
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,468
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $244,850
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $21,610
    Deferred
    $1,198
    Nontaxable benefits
    $270
    Filer's total
    $267,928
  • Sabrina Burns

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Callahan

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lisa Mazzola Cania

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Joanne Kelley

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Molly Moen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gail M Pesyna

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert Cree

    VICE PRESIDENT AND CFO

    Total calculated
    $210,224
    From this org
    $206,542
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,682
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $188,726
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $17,816
    Deferred
    $3,442
    Nontaxable benefits
    $240
    Filer's total
    $210,224
  • Pamela Sheridan

    VP FOR ADVANCEMENT

    Total calculated
    $90,423
    From this org
    $88,705
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,718
    Hours/week
    35
  • Jonathan Gibralter

    FORMER PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $220,589
    From this org
    $206,488
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,101
    Hours/week
    0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,823
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $27,665
    Deferred
    $13,831
    Nontaxable benefits
    $270
    Filer's total
    $220,589

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,142,887
    Expenses
    $8,496,336
    Contributions
    $751,497
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $30,120,284
    Expenses
    $37,974,374
    Contributions
    $6,157,512
    Grants paid
    $7,871,635
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $29,627,481
    Expenses
    $32,843,838
    Contributions
    $9,462,730
    Grants paid
    $7,282,572

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $30,195,610
    Expenses
    $29,620,091
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,092,070
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $23,598,312
    Expenses
    $26,542,932
    Assets (EOY)
    $79,137,888
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $31,801,251
    Expenses
    $29,289,790
    Assets (EOY)
    $74,526,050
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $33,090,837
    Expenses
    $35,747,483
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,838,920
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $36,199,315
    Expenses
    $35,546,779
    Assets (EOY)
    $74,219,478
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $34,358,388
    Expenses
    $35,407,184
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,440,192
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $40,820,918
    Expenses
    $36,300,990
    Assets (EOY)
    $70,689,792
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $35,378,972
    Expenses
    $34,164,166
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,595,501
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $34,835,032
    Expenses
    $33,034,661
    Assets (EOY)
    $67,468,271
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $32,692,125
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,496,004

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.